Dream – 1982
I had this dream while attending the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1982. Before I had this dream, I had a victim’s mentality. Oh woe is me. All this bad stuff happens to me and I am so sad and I have no control over anything. It didn’t happen overnight, but this dream showed me that what was in my past was in my past and there was nothing that could be done about it. But I did have control (at least some) over the rest of my life.
And without further adieu, here is said dream:
I was looking down at the Doors’ first album. You know, the kind made of black vinyl before they started all this CD stuff… Anyway, I was the album. It was like I was looking both down at the album and up from the album to me at the same time. Weird.
So, I’m watching me look at the album, and I could see Side A. I could see the grooves in the record. I could see the label with all the text, the names of the songs, Elektra’s butterfly logo,the hole in the center for the spindle, the whole bit.
Suddenly, the album is turned over. Side B contains no grooves, no red label, nothing. It has not been recorded yet.
It is up to me to decide what gets recorded on the rest of the album (or my life).
